tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post3717654305460530997..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Problems and pitfalls of new SCCRC application and appealRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-32472812724709704652014-04-28T15:00:15.231+01:002014-04-28T15:00:15.231+01:00As "Adequately Explained by Stupidity?" ...As "Adequately Explained by Stupidity?" explains the case should never have been outsourced to Scotland in the first place. bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-37184680691513426992014-04-26T22:24:30.378+01:002014-04-26T22:24:30.378+01:00I don't think we can know what would have happ...I don't think we can know what would have happened as regards Lockerbie if Scotland had been independent all along. Every country is capable of buckling under pressure, and/or of making a complete balls-up of what should have been fairly simple forensics, or producing judges who don't believe those nice policemen would ever bring someone to court who wasn't guilty. Or whatever the hell happened. And an independent Scotland would be just as fallible as any other comparable country.<br /><br />However, the union has served those affected by the disaster extraordinarily badly. I think it's time to try something different.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-3892833841310877112014-04-26T01:52:42.405+01:002014-04-26T01:52:42.405+01:00The only significance of Scottish independence is ...The only significance of Scottish independence is that a free nation would've reviewed this case entirely differently, devoid of the pressures that were brought to bear on it from England and the U.S. to achieve the satisfactory result at the show trial.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-83625831605122915172014-04-25T20:04:51.463+01:002014-04-25T20:04:51.463+01:00Who raised Scots independence? You? Anyway, I quit...Who raised Scots independence? You? Anyway, I quite like fish. Especially when they are on my plate! Yum! Tasty!Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-69626162680304900132014-04-25T19:12:44.127+01:002014-04-25T19:12:44.127+01:00I don't know what my support for Scottish inde...I don't know what my support for Scottish independence has to do with the price of fish. It's possible to disagree on that point and remain on good terms. I just don't understand why it has been dragged into this discussion at all.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-46432106833726890132014-04-25T16:43:53.403+01:002014-04-25T16:43:53.403+01:00I don't know what he's talking about eithe...I don't know what he's talking about either.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-62362076235783324602014-04-25T15:02:13.036+01:002014-04-25T15:02:13.036+01:00Fair point Aku. I shall now abstain.
Having said t...Fair point Aku. I shall now abstain.<br />Having said that though, do bear in mind that Zeist was an entirely circumstantial case which convicted some random Libyan on the basis of three blokes' imaginations. I also do not share the politics of Rolfe, despite the fact that we know each other fairly well. Cryptic? No. I don't hide. I'm an open target.Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-5819397609417360522014-04-25T12:22:08.978+01:002014-04-25T12:22:08.978+01:00I think many serious and casual observers of this ...I think many serious and casual observers of this case would find it helpful if there were fewer cryptic references and in-jokes, such as feature above, swapped among case insiders such as Quincey. I'm sure I'm not alone in finding this unhelpful.Akuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03594021950952932977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-35024599506488485522014-04-25T11:39:36.066+01:002014-04-25T11:39:36.066+01:00Add it up Rolfe. It's called a cluster-XXXX of...Add it up Rolfe. It's called a cluster-XXXX of circumstantial evidence. Maybe you political tykes need to get out of the sticks more often. The sky is clearer from where I sit. But, there again, I am not in the same party.Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-92053067381568276832014-04-25T10:50:54.988+01:002014-04-25T10:50:54.988+01:00Baffled person here.Baffled person here.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-37476024783126542312014-04-24T22:59:02.779+01:002014-04-24T22:59:02.779+01:00Got them. Gott'em Ya beauty! Love Ya Kenny!Got them. Gott'em Ya beauty! Love Ya Kenny!Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-17856969753296926562014-04-24T15:09:21.193+01:002014-04-24T15:09:21.193+01:00Is it not the case that my discovery that "ph...Is it not the case that my discovery that "photograph 117"<br />(depicting the exhibit PT/2 as a Casper the friendly ghost-shaped tiny clump of paper) was taken ten days after Dr Hayes supposedly sketched and identified the five constituent sheets of PT/2 sufficient grounds for the Crown to quash Mr Megrahi's conviction?<br /><br /><br />As far as I can see the SCCRC knew perfectly well photograph 117 was not taken until the 22/5/88 but may have relied on the defence team being too dumb to notice this. They certainly knew from their own Forensic Document Examiner that there was something seriously amiss with "page 51" of Dr Hayes notes but bent over backwards to explain this away? What therefore is the point of the SCCRC examining their own blunder or cover-up? bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-26685220979162043872014-04-24T13:35:12.170+01:002014-04-24T13:35:12.170+01:00In respect of the Camp Zeist trial I did not see h...In respect of the Camp Zeist trial I did not see how, with many of the prosecution claims that were accepted by the Trial Judges, this requirement for corroboration had any effect. It seems that the requirement for corroboration was mere semantics. for example Richard Marquise recently stated that Megrahi was in Malta at the time the clothing was purchased "corroborated by the shopkeeper Gauci". bazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02338162927520376063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-48766890354923608992014-04-24T13:13:19.940+01:002014-04-24T13:13:19.940+01:00There can't be an appeal unless and until the ...There can't be an appeal unless and until the SCCRC makes a fresh reference back to the High Court. Once that happens the three months will start to run.Robert Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-8796926822291731342014-04-24T13:09:46.757+01:002014-04-24T13:09:46.757+01:00It seems to me any appeal should have been lodged ...It seems to me any appeal should have been lodged within the three months after Megrahi died.<br />We all know our courts will use every excuse in the book to reject such an appeal and I fear it will now use the need for finality & certainty as they did recently with Carberry.<br />Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained.<br />Why shouldn't Jim Swire register an appeal with SCCRC ?William Beckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07300194986685036428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-5386067378913916452014-04-24T09:55:52.065+01:002014-04-24T09:55:52.065+01:00I knew it, I knew it, I just knew it! Why did I no...I knew it, I knew it, I just knew it! Why did I not go down to Ladbrokes and open a book? Idiot! Hallelujah, 1370 lives to fight another day! Thanks Kenny.Quincey Riddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09196728122070096913noreply@blogger.com